El banquete humano. A propósito de Hannibal Lecter y el canibalismo. El silencio de los corderos (1991) de Jonathan Demme

Abstract

The Red Dragon (1981) by Thomas Harris is the introduction of the perverse psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter, a murdeous psychopath who shines singularly in the firmament of the most heinous murderers in the history of cinema. This collection was completed with the publication of The Silence of the Lambs (1988), Hannibal (1999) and Hannibal: The Origin of Evil (2006), until now its last sequel. A source of cinematographic inspirations, the saga began with the Oscar-winning The Silence of the Lambs (1991) by Jonathan Demme, followed by Hannibal (2001) by Ridley Scott, The Red Dragon (2002) by Brett Rainer, and Hannibal: The Origin of Evil (2007) by Peter Webber, although there is also a first adaptation of the novel The Red Dragon titled Manhunter (1986) by Michael Mann, where FBI agents confront the fearsome serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecktor (Bryan Cox). Likewise, the American writer and producer Bryan Fuller created the television series Hannibal (2013-2015), 39 episodes in which the danish actor Mads Mikkelsen embodies the perverse cannibal. Regardless of its anthropological, moral and cultural connotations, most cannibalism behaviors are related to psychotic disorders, such as paranoid schyzophrenia, when this patients kill an d eat part of the bodies of their victims in their delusional pictures.